Study on erosion wear of steels under varying abrasive jet

Abstract Erosion is one of the frequently occurring wear of aerospace, power plant, surface vehicles and ship components. Wear is detrimental that reduces service life of the engineering components. An abrasive jet system can provide the means of erosion by supplying high velocity abrasive jet towards the materials from which components are made. On way of investigating the sustainability of engineering materials against erosion, mild steel and austenitic stainless steel had been being targeted by an abrasive jet by varying different process parameters. The rate of erosion of mild steel and austenitic stainless steel was measured under various process conditions. The effect of different process parameters on crater depth was also investigated